background and objectives: cryptosporidiosis has not been reported as an endemic disease in kashmir, but high prevalence of cryptosporidium sp. has been found among asymptomatic (non-diarrheic) hiv positive immigrants in present study. due to increasing number of hiv positive immigrants in kashmir, cryptosporidium may become a public health problem in kashmir. materials and methods: a total of ...

Twenty-eight of the 302 Salmonella strains isolated from patients with overseas travelers' diarrhea who were examined at Kansai Airport Department Station during the 6-year period between 2001 and 2007 showed decreased susceptibility to both nalidixic acid (NA) and ciprofloxacin (CPFX) (MIC of NA, 16-64 microg/mL; MIC of CPFX, 0.064-2.0 microg/mL). These 28 strains revealed no variations in the...

Cholera, caused by infection with toxigenic Vibrio cholerae bacteria of serogroup O1 (>99% of global cases) or O139, is characterized by watery diarrhea that can be severe and rapidly fatal without prompt rehydration. Cholera is endemic in approximately 60 countries and causes epidemics as well. Globally, cholera results in an estimated 2.9 million cases of disease and 95,000 deaths annually (1...

Diarrhea is a common illness among travelers to resource-limited countries, the most prevalent attributable agent being enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC). At this time, there are no vaccines licensed specifically for the prevention of ETEC-induced traveler's diarrhea (TD), and this has propelled investigation of alternative preventive methods. Colostrum, the first milk expressed after bir...

BACKGROUND Campylobacter continues to be an important cause of diarrheal disease worldwide and a leading cause in Southeast Asia. Studies of US soldiers and marines deployed to Thailand for a 2 to 3 week field exercise provide a unique population in which to study traveler's diarrhea. METHODS A case-control study of 217 deployed military personnel was conducted from 2002 through 2004. Of thes...

TO THE EDITOR—I warmly thank Drs Bradley Connor and Jay Keystone for their meritorious editorial commentary [1] on our research showing that antibiotic use predisposes travelers to colonization with extended-spectrum beta-lactamaseproducing Enterobacteriaceae (ESBL-PE) [2]. They cogitate about fundamental problems associated with refraining from antibiotics for travelers’ diarrhea (TD), listing...

US health officials will begin to actively monitor all travelers arriving from the three west African countries affected by the Ebola epidemic, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced 22 October. The monitoring will begin 27 October in six states that are the destinations of 70% of travelers from these countries, NewYork, Pennsylvania, Mary...